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Head of the program: Dr.
Werner Berg
Department
5 - Engineering for livestock management
 Agricultural
livestock farming is embedded in the contradictory
context of animal welfare and animal health,
environmental protection, preventive consumer protection,
food safety, consumer attitude as well as economical
interests of farmers and their perspective development.
The research program focuses on analysis, evaluation and
development of animal husbandry. In the dispute on
animal protection and animal livestock farming "animal
welfare" was established as a term of overriding
importance. "Animal welfare" paraphrases the
extend of adaptability of an animal species to an
environment characterised by a specific production
procedure. Political demands range up to a "natural"
animal husbandry and an ethically responsible dealing
with the animals from birth to slaughtering. The
influencing factors on animal welfare are keeping,
feeding, management, productivity, animal health, age, genetics, and
others. These factors also influence the environmental
compatibility of animal production. Research on the
process segments keeping, climate control, production,
waste and management requires the fusion of basic
knowledge in scientific engineering (e.g. rheology,
thermodynamics, fluid mechanics) with biological
knowledge (e.g. physiology, nutrition, ethiology,
biotechnology).
The palette of the worked research subjects reaches from questions to animal-friendly and emission-reduced animal husbandry, new sensor-aided animal data measuring systems for all farm animal species up to questions of the udder-careful milking and the environmentally sound use of manures.
Research
structure (overview)
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